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The first release in the upcoming Linux Mint 18.x series will be named “Sarah”.

The voting is over in the first round of our annual GNU/Linux distro poll, which sought an answer to the simple question, “What Linux distro do you currently use most?” The result was a complete surprise, at least to us.

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE Edition.

If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you'd be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still widely used in the transport layer security protocol that underpins HTTPS. Now, researchers have devised a series of attacks that exploit the weaknesses to break or degrade key protections provided not only by HTTPS but also other encryption protocols, including Internet Protocol Security and secure shell.

uGet is a free and Open-Source download manager for Linux. It's light and small but supports most important feautres that a good download manager should have. uGet recently released uget 2.0.4. You can easily install this simple yet powerful download manager on your Linux system.

It would appear that Michael Tunnell, the developer of the uGet download manager software for GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, silently released the fourth maintenance build in the uGet 2.0 series.

The spotlight is back on Drupal with the 8.0.0 release. The successful launch is a testament to the hard work put in by members of the Drupal community, but Drupal 7 still has a huge install base and likely will for many years to come. To support Drupal 7 development, let's take a look at a testing platform built exclusively for the platform. Red Test is an open source integration testing framework aimed at making life easier for Drupal developers. read more

Alexander Wolf from Stellarium, the world's best free, open source and cross-platform planetarium software, proudly announced today the release and immediate availability for download of Stellarium 0.14.2.

I have mixed emotions about ReactOS. It's open source. It's freely available. But, its goal is to be binary-compatible with Windows! ReactOS is not a Linux operating system. In fact, it doesn't share the UNIX architecture at all. It looks like Windows NT, and it behaves much like Windows NT. It's just odd!

PowerUp Toys has launched a smartphone controlled airplane drone with an open Linux SDK on Kickstarter, letting you stream video to a Google Cardboard HMD. Most of the drones on display at CES cost many hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. But the biggest benefit of drones — putting a camera in the sky — […]

This guide shows how to download Youtube videos for watching offline, which is great when you are on a train or a plane with limited or no internet access. This guide introduces a command line and gui tool.

Open source software has made huge strides in a short time. But do platforms like the cloud, IoT and Android help or hinder the mission of free and open source code?

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Linux coming to more cars, open source firmware on Linksys routers, the push for open access journals in Europe, and more. Open source news for January 2 - 8, 2016 read more

One of the most interesting features that are going to land for GNOME is called fwupd, and it should be available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as well.

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source and cross platform tool to compare and sync files and folders. It's a very useful tool as you can compare two folders at different locations with FreeFileSync. You can update two folders and updation will copy all the new files from one folder (source folder) to another (target folder).

I have noticed several questions (ask.openstack.org,stackoverflow.com ) regarding mentioned ongoing issue with mongodb-server and nagios when installing RDO Kilo 2015.1.1 on CentOS 7.2 via packstack. At the moment I see a hack provided bellow which might be applied as pre-installation step or a fix after initial packstack crash.

If you’ve been following the news about ad blockers, you might have heard about Forbes asking its readers to turn off ad blockers to access its content. Apparently the site promised to provide an “ad light” version of its site that provides less ads or something like that. Well one guy, Brian Baskins, turned off his ad blocker and promptly got some pop-under malware on the Forbes site.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight the best open source games of 2015, Linux music listening, 10 projects to fork in 2016, 10 cool tools for the Docker community, and one man's story of rescuing older computers and rehabilitating them with Linux.

Daqri has upgraded its augmented reality Smart Helmet, which now runs Linux on a 6th Gen Intel Core M7 processor, and includes an Intel RealSense camera. Daqri first announced its Daqri Smart Helmet in Sept. 2014, and rolled it out to aerospace, construction, oil & gas, and other industrial firms for pilot programs shortly thereafter.

It looks like the Ubuntu Touch team added more impressive improvements and new features to the upcoming OTA-9 software update for Ubuntu Phone devices.